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Show JEWS IN BOUMANIa. Although Roumania is thickly peopled by Jews, the laws of the country aflord them little or no pro lection in their purso or person. The Jew can own no rent ctate, and hia personal properly rights are of small account. The severity of the laws makes him a grinding usurer, but at the 6.1 me time places him at the mercy of debtors wbo are not noted for tcir honor and honesty, ao much as for their reckless prodigality. It ia eiid ih.it Roumanian nobles are in tne habit of viaiiiug the gay capitals of Europe, where in the course ol a season or two they will spend the income in-come of ten or twenty years. In order to supply themselves with the money, they have to apply to the Jews. The legl rate of interest is very low, but to get around tbis tl:o magnate will borrow $1,000 and giva an obligation obli-gation to pay interest on $10 300 the security being a morty.'ii;e on his estate. Tit is mortgage i3 euuply worthless if the Uoumauian tit not ebon? a t t I'onor it. Tue Jew cannot hoil the title, ard if ho attempts lo foreclose aud sell, he will have bis trouble for bis pains. No one wcuM dare to buy, because trie prncfice is to promptly kill an outside bid.ier at one of these sal3. Tue proprietor a:'ter tie auctioneer has critd tome litno for bids, offers five cents fur the property, which ia knocked dj'vn to him. The debt has b en cnctlltd, the Uw satisfied, and if tho J is not very c:.rohil be wJ! bare his beard pulled Mid be spit upu.i :-A':e he ge'a away. A clause i i tuts tre.ity ; of Berlin gives ti Hebrew (nil rights! of citizens in Uouoiania, b it i: h-i-tj not yet been carried ii.tj ell i ', -Dd the injustice- would be severe v.ere it to be executed at present. Scores of i mortgages euch aa mentioned are' held by the Jewa of Roumania and1 were the law to be changed no-v, all of them wou'd become legal claims j for the euma call. -d for, instead of bills for illegal interest. Tue Jews would be able to turn the tables upon their former persi cutors, aad in at t'ntm ' pay ten fjld for tho money borrnvtd. It is tljuii ;ht aome compromise arrangement will bo entered i:ito before be-fore the- t.-ra'y ii carried tffro. |